The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous to the eighty-eight keys and you have to be able to play all eighty-eight keys in that palette from white to black.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.